NXPowerLite Server (and Quick Scan) can scan and process files any files that they can 'see'. This includes the following:
- Network drives
- UNC paths
- SAN Drives
- Other servers
- Shared drives
If these files are not mapped in the Windows Explorer they will not show up in the Add Folder browser inside NXPowerLite Server. You can add these locations via their UNC paths using the add multiple folders feature.
Note: You must ensure that your NXPowerLite Server server license covers the data you are addressing via UNC path.
Add Multiple Folders by UNC path
The following instructions to enable you to add UNC paths to the list of folders that NXPowerLite will scan:
1: Ensure the user that Windows Service is running with a user account that has full access (read/write/update/delete permissions) to all the data on all of the servers/drives you wish to compress. See Configuring the NXPowerLite Windows Service for more details
2: Click the Add Multiple Folders... button on the NXPowerLite Server Dashboard.
3: Add the fully qualified path of each network/server/SAN drive/share, one per line and then click OK.
Note: It is possible to paste a list of folder paths directly from Windows Explorer. See below for more information.
4: NXPowerLite will check whether the current user can access each of the top level server/SAN drive/share. Drives that are inaccessible will appear greyed out.
[Optional] 5: All folders added will be added with the default Files to optimize and Settings profiles. You may wish to apply different profiles to some or all of the added folders
Add multiple folders with specific characters in their names
Use this approach if you need to quickly select multiple folders to add into NXPowerLite based on the folder names containing specific characters. For example, if you want to add all of the folders that include the word “nxp”.
There isn’t a built-in function to do this in NXPowerLite but the search function in Microsoft Explorer makes this very easy. Open Explorer and navigate to the top-level folder. In the example below you can see that there are three sub-folders, and only two folders have "nxp" in their names.
Enter the characters you want to match in the search box at the top right, followed by “kind:folder”, for example, “nxp kind:folder”. This tells Explorer you want a list of all the folders that contain the word “nxp” anywhere in their names.
To add the folders to NXPowerLite, you need to select all of the folders in the search results list, hold down the Shift key, and right-click on the selected folders - select the “Copy as path” option. This will save the list of folder paths to the clipboard.
Open NXPowerLite Server, and click the "Add multiple folders…" button. Then paste using Ctrl+V, or right click and select "Paste" to add the list of paths into dialog. Then click OK to add them to the list of folders for NXPowerLite to compress.